Textile artists, embroidery teachers, and book authors Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn are artists in residence at the Windsor School of Textile Art, East Berkshire College, England. They are renowned for their publications and workshops that focus on using inventive ways to use soluble fabrics, hand stitching, and transfer printing to extend your creativity with fabric and thread. Most recently, they have been recognized as the Textile Teachers of the Year at the Knitting and Stitching Show in the United Kingdom.
		City & Guilds-trained artist Beryl Taylor is the author of MIXED-MEDIA EXPLORATIONS, BLENDING PAPER FABRIC, AND EMBELLISHMENT TO CREATE INSPIRED DESIGNS. Since 2002 she has devoted herself to art full time, manipulating, dyeing, painting, stamping, embroidering, and decorating papers and fabrics to produce enriching textured effects and vibrant colors. Her detailed artistry takes paper and fabric to places they’ve never been before.
		Patricia Chatham Bolton was introduced to art quilting and the related arts in 1998, and ever since she took her first stitch (a fly) and embroidered her first motif (a spider), she has been entangled in this art form and can’t envision herself free. Quilting and mixed-media arts have, quite literally, taken over her life so much so that in 2000 she left her doctoral program and full-time teaching job to found QUILTING ARTS MAGAZINE. In 2004, she and her husband launched a second publication, CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS. They've since added several books to their line of publishing. Patricia has appeared twice as a guest on HGTV’s “Simply Quilts,” judged several art quilt categories, and given a number of talks, including the keynote address at Art Quilts at the Sedgwick. She loves to combine collage with creative embroidery, and when she's not attending a quilt show or meeting a magazine deadline, she can be found puttering about her fiber art studio.